{"id":63320,"key":"Open_house/Narrative","title":"Open house/Narrative","latest":{"id":1218784,"timestamp":"2025-12-17T15:53:11Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"{{Open house navigation}}\n\n== Narrative and Episode Structure ==\n\nIn this section we discuss the narrative and episode structure for the Open House documentary and details such as aesthetics, music, and media design.\n\nThe core narrative of the Open House series will be defined by its largest building project; the construction of a home. Following the example of other more conventional home improvement and programs, the basic construction phases of this project and the various sub-projects making it up will provide opportunities to move beyond the building site itself, serving as a 'vehicle' for a journey into the emerging Post-Industrial culture and the various concepts, locations, and personalities involved in cultivating it.\n\nThe narrative and episodes deriving from it will depend heavily on several key logistics and design choices at the start and which still need some analysis. First, we have several possible approaches to the house design itself. Then there is a choice of building strategy; either relying mostly on prefabbing in a studio-workshop setting, employing mostly-on-site fabrication with a transportable workshop, or some combination of those two.\n\n* [[Open house episodes|episode breakdown]]\n* [[Open house side trips|side trips]] - people and places\n\n== Aesthetics ==\n\nThe most-likely basis of a common aesthetic for the show and its designs will be defined by that of most of the artifacts employed in the home project which are mostly based on CNC and laser-cut sheet board materials. These artifacts have an interesting look deriving from both their materials and their open design philosophy. They expose and revel in the way they are made, the way they work, and the simple nature of their materials. They are both useful objects and 'samplers'--like embroidery samplers--illustrating and illuminating their creation. Commercial products are often designed around concealment and fakery. Cheap materials disguised by faux-finishes to appear like richer materials. Attempts to conceal means of assembly to make them difficult to take-apart. Attempts to mimic the styles and looks of competing brand products or recreate the look of anachronistic product designs to appeal to nostalgia. This nonsense means nothing to the open designer who takes a very pragmatic approach directed not by shelf-appeal and the psychological warfare of the market but the straightforward practical needs of the end-user and their options for customization/personalization. And so this essential honesty and directness of open design results in a radical new aesthetic--a Post-Industrial aesthetic--that we will showcase throughout the documentary.\n\nComplimenting and reinforcing this, of course, should be a choice of music. The current choice for music complimenting this open source/Post-Industrial aesthetic is the group Freeworm and their albums Solar Power and Vegetation = Fuel, along with some tunes exclusive to their web site such as Grow Grsss on Cars. (which, sadly, seems to be off-line at the moment) Listed below are some samples from YouTube;\n\nA possible opening theme?\n\n[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx0gPLwWZes Round - Solar Power]\n\n[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdpuvhTPOAo Zero Gravity Love - Solar Power]\n\n[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oSitQIHk5g Sandylou - Solar Power]\n\n[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbZqRFz-I30 Bubbler System - Solar Power]\n\n[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVMCOWnP8yY Rooftop Campers - Vegetation = Fuel]\n\n[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq4VvXhz3mo Steeps - Vegetation = Fuel]\n\n[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-6NlyEpruU Dirt Bath - Vegetation = Fuel]\n\n[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xR7Mh_YCM8 Inner-City Creatures]\n\n[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFadSLKvRqo Nagin - Freeworm's Lullaby for Treetop Bears]\n\n[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7omYcRvZM0o Vegetation = Fuel]\n\nSeries close theme?\n\n[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlabSPe6jgM Grow Grass On Cars]\n\n{{Page data}}\n\n[[Category:Housing]]"}